I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.